LMAO, Scott. Something tells me this isn’t just real estate porn, but an invite to the real thing. Did you scroll through to the bedroom shots, and do you think both women (and the dreamy background music) come with the house?

I was getting dressed this morning and had the news on in the next room when suddenly I heard who I thought was Paul Lynde giving an anti-gay rant. Nope, just “Dr.” Marcus Bachman. Uncanny! After having been on vacation in Europe where the news is actually filled with, well, actual news, it is quite shocking to return to my home country and be greeted by the new normal.

Last night on my way home some lady came up to me and asked me to buy her a sandwich because she heard on NY1 that Obama was gonna stop sending her check! Man, talk about entitlement…..what is wrong with people, thinking life is just bouncing from one free lunch to the next. How about GET A F U C K I N G JOB!

It’s not about the sandwich it’s about how fast Obama saying “checks might not go out” gets to the fat lazy food stamp lady on the street. She was not a bum, just your average public housing handout junkie.

sometimes i get a tad pissy about the gazillion Summer Meals for Kids program ads i see on the subway… there are like 500 places in nyc where they can get free breakfast and free lunch. okay whatever, that’s cool and maybe for some necessary… but it’s just annoying that they (well their parents) can use money to DO have (and many DO) on other things that people would consider luxiries. since their parents dont have to pay for breakfast OR lunches they can then use that money for other things. screw that. and you have to be 18 and under. why cant this program be made for EVERYONE of ANY age? i’d like to get subsidized breakfasts and lunches all summer so i can save up for a real vacation! maybe im tired of visiting places on the internet?

rob, ignoring whether or not your assumptions (impoverished parents spend the money that would feed their children on luxury goods) are correct, feeding kids reasonable food (who cannot feed themselves) is still a net public good. You, on the other hand *can feed yourself*.

For God’s sake, rob. Now you’re jealous of poor kids who get an apple and a box of cereal?

If you want to go on a damn vacation, stop smoking and drinking for one month, and you’ll have enough money. Stop smoking and drinking permanently, and you will have enough money for breakfast, lunch and vacation.

Your sense of entitlement is worse than any of the people you despise so much.

MM, stay outta my purse. it’s none of your business what i spend my monies on as i EARN it MYSELF. i dont go on squaking about your vices. im getting really sick of you and bxgirl constantly bringing up my smoking. i pay more in taxes on those cigarettes to help the lazy poor who take take take… than you do on your vices. so stick a cork in it you pompous snobby know it all. isnt their a tin ceiling you should be fawning over right now!?!

*lights cancer stick* that I PAID for with MY OWN MONEY, taxes of which fly out the window and winds up who KNOWS where. and when i DO get cancer, and i WILL, ill get to take back from society!!!! yay!

Fine. I could really care less if you smoke yourself into a cinder, or drink your liver into mush. It’s your choice.

Maybe then you’ll stop the endless carping about all of the “free” things poor people get. For someone who “earns their own money”, you spend more time worrying about what others have and get, than how you can make do, or do better, with what you have.

There are plenty of hardworking people out there who would give their eyeteeth to have what you have, and through no fault of their own, now have nothing, and have to have their kids sign up for free breakfasts and lunches. You should thank your lucky stars you aren’t one of them.

Your incessant whining about people, about whom you have no real basis of fact to fall back on, is disgusting, and I’m tired of reading your rants whenever you aren’t getting enough attention from everyone else.

You act as if a kid’s sandwich is somehow taking something out of your life, when in fact, you have made yourself so miserable, you can’t even appreciate what you have. I hope you someday find some real joy in life.

“[the castaways have set up a courtroom and are conducting a trial]
Thurston Howell III: Your Honor, will you get another gavel?
Professor Roy Hinkley: Why?
Thurston Howell III: That one’s squirting milk all over me.”

“[the castaways have set up a courtroom and are conducting a trial]
Thurston Howell III: Your Honor, will you get another gavel?
Professor Roy Hinkley: Why?
Thurston Howell III: That one’s squirting milk all over me.”

Oops. This was the other Raunch Hour on Gilligan’s Island post I had intended:

“Gilligan: You’re a big man with a big head and – -…
Skipper Jonas Grumby: Gilligan!”

I guess I really shouldn’t be surprised. 2 grown men “sharing” a hut after all. Easy to guess who was the top and who was the bottom. And I guess the Skipper was into twinks and Gilligan was into bears.

I bought NFLX late last year and rode it up for a while before selling.

I don’t think either company can keep growing at current rates, and both stocks will eventually come down to earth.

I think Amazon in particular will start eating into Netflix’s market share in the next few years. They certainly have the technology, infrastructure, customer base, and cash to compete whenever they feel like it.

I’ll be here until end October. Business in Hong Kong is good, so I can’t stay here very long. By “good” I mean: 4.5 % unemployment rate and lots of money in circulation. Sadly, I may be abandoning Brooklyn soon for the brighter opportunities of Asia.

Yeah, but in HK the air conditioning everywhere is cranked up to 20, and a lot of businesses even leave their doors open, so there’s always a respite from the humidity. I walk down Queen’s Road, and a cold breeze is always wafting around my ankles from escaping a/c

And I know some excellent places to drink there, including a new hidden speakeasy that is tucked away between two open air butchers in the meat market. You wade through dangling carcasses, knock on an unmarked door, then descend to a fab 60s style cocktail lounge with a drink menu a la WeatherUp.

The issue I have with CSTR is that their two main business products have almost no barriers to entry for competitors.
The biggest advantage they have is deals with supermarket and convenience store chains, and there is no reason to believe that those stores will not squeeze more money for those deals, go to more lucrative competitors, or start their own competitive services.

I think they will have a good run for bit longer, but I’d rather not try to time the peak.

In terms of DVD rentals, I personally have seen more redbox competitors the redbox kiosks, although they are certainly the most common.
They are talking a lot about getting into the streaming business, but this is a totally new area for them and one they will have a hard time breaking into.

In terms of coin redemption, I see a good market opportunity for a company to make copycat hardware and sale it directly to stores for for a fixed capital + maintenance costs.

I also think that both products will reach a market saturation point fairly soon, and societal tends of getting movies online and using cash for fewer purchases will not help them.

Best part of shows @ the prospect park bandshell is seeing the looks of the people who live around PPW walking their dogs as 1000s of drunk, high white kids get released upon their neighborhood after the show.

there’s a venue at fulton and brooklyn (next to the popeyes) that occasionally hosts rave-y events, and it always makes me laugh/be concerned when I get out of the subway and and there are crowds of white kids in furry boots, blinky lights and other crazy bits wandering around.

do people care about this whole news of the world, murdoch, B Sky B, etc. business….i know it is newsworthy but to be front page headlines on NY times for days is just weird. there are so many more pressing issues that should be given more coverage.

I think what M4L says is true but there is widening evidence that other news media engage in the same practices. I have a feeling a lot of news outlets are sweating bullets right now. But Murdoch is among the worst.

Can anyone tell me what is going on with google? they keep saying things like they will delete accounts with non-public profiles. Does that mean they will delete gmail accounts? Or just the google + accounts?

I saw the “”Skipper” and “Gilligan” at a Milwaukee rock radio promo back in the 70′s.

They had them row ashore in a little row boat that had been anchored in Lake Michigan. When they made it to shore they were mobbed by the crowd, who had been drinking beer in anticipation, for quite a while. The Skipper looked genuinely afraid for his life.

do they even check IDs at those free meals place?! i think im gonna dress up like hannah montana and walk into one. where’s the closest free lunch place in soho? and where’s the closest free breakfast place in park slope? anyone know? are the free meals gross tho, like what you get in school and detox centers?

GROSS randi!!!! i dont feel like getting lice for a cup of watered down soup and a rotten apple. plus most of the soup kitchens in nyc are full of violent offenders and crazy people. ive never gone to a food pantry, i think i have too much pride to do that.

Grey day in Chicago. I got my first directions request today. Everywhere I go people ask me directions. The Chinese derivatives conference last night was so so.(Chinese derivative regulator was interesting though). There are about 20 “foreign” firms which have created companies in China to trade, which is the only way you can participate in the 3 major commodity exchanges whose volume is 90% speculation, 10% hedging.

Re Netflix, it seems that they are segueing to a totally online, steaming library. They have been building that and building that and it is great. I actually prefer it to the DVDs. I think this is their first step to treating the DVD business as a premium as an add-on to the streaming biz.

I do too. Occasionally you get a movie which is defective and you let them know. Well, actually that happened only once. Generally, the quality is a little worse than a DVD and sometimes the movie will stop (depends on your internet connection) to buffer. But they have so much stuff on line now, it is great. The latest movies are usually only available on DVD.

My friend just sent a txt. He said that’s not something we’re likely to see in the paper. Yeah, right, give it a day or so, and we’ll see his pic and know everything about him. I’m sure we would already, but Rupert has been distracted this week.

The best in the City of which I’m aware is David’s in Grand Central – the 45th Street entrance at Vanderbilt. I’ve been taking shoes there for years, and their crafstmanship is phenomenal – I inherited new and almost new Gucci loafers from my father (for which I always criticized him, until I wore a pair, and discovered they’re like buttah, so I apologized posthumously!), and when I pick them up from David’s they’re like brand new.

There’s also a good place on DeGraw Street, a couple of doors in from Court, which another PLUSA recommended to me, with which I’ve been happy.

But, nothing compares to David’s, so I wait and take my good shoes there when I’m going to be in midtown.

My favorite shoe repair place is midtown. There is nothing right by me in the hood. My place is on 39th street between 3rd and Lex. I don’t like the Russian ones where you have to nego everything, starting with their idea of how you need the shoes rebuilt. I bought a nice pair of shoes with skinny heels. They look good but they get stuck in the cracks in the sidewalks. The other day I could not extract my heel on 42nd Street. I had to remove my foot from the shoe, lean down and yank the shoe with both hands out of the spongy crap they put in the sidewalk cracks. So the heel leather is peeled off and I have to go to my guy to fix it AGAIN.

You have no idea how tough I am. Just like those people in jail with all that time on their hands………I am working out big time now. I am not going to get any tattoos or anything but am feeling tough enough to take on Corinne Rossi.

So randi, watch out. ;But do feel free to come to any of our social gatherings.

PS, you know very well that I posted to you at least a year ago that I long ago moved past that comment, which is when you emailed me, and gave us some of your personal deets.

If you don’t want to join us, that’s your prerogative, but we always have a great time hanging out together (well, except for a couple of people who have never been seen or heard from again after meeting us).

I say we go back to Roberta’s in Bushwick. Awesome venue. Indoor and outdoor. Great food. And amazing drinks – frozen gin & orange or lemon or something; can’t recall the name, but after 1/2 of one of those, lucky we remembered where we were.

Remember how he didn’t want to meet us last summer at Hot Bird but he dropped off the pictures of the Blue Mosque for me from Istanbul. He left them with the bartender. I thought that was wonderful. I think his wife convinced him to drop all his “bad habits” and pull his socks up. Hence, his disappearance. Just a theory. I hope I am wrong.

i find you people always constantly picking out something brooklyncentric kinda barfy. there’s a whole city out there (plus jersey city and hoboken which some could argue beats brooklyn in many things). or how about if you have to pick brooklyn, something in a non moonface neighborhood? (and crown heights DOES count as a moonface neighborhood btw)

As *rob* [rolling his eyes] sighingly informed us once, vinegar sammich’s are so much more, so so much more than what one would think. and no, it is not just vinegar and bread. But he never told us exactly.

DIBS – those guys underground at Rockefeller polish shoes like there’s no tomorrow. They take 15 mins on them, so even though there’s a team of 5 guys polishing, there’s always a line. Once polished they’ll hold up for months though.

HA the foxy brown postal lady just came in and i totally blushed. speaking of, the real foxy brown was acquitted for mooning her nosey neighbor!!! the reason she was in trouble for mooning her neighbor was cuz her nosey busybody neighbor has a restraining order against foxy.

Lafayette Avenue?
Me and Lafayette Avenue go back a long way.
When I used to take the train there to and from school in the early eighties. Put it this way, when I took the train there, the “Paris” cleaners store right there on Dekalb was actually a dry cleaners.
…and the bathroom there was something like the scene in
Trainspotting where the junkie dives into the “Dirtiest Toilet in Scotland”.

dibs,
Part of the human physiological response to attractive individuals is a dialation of the pupils, as if they open in order to take more in.
Some celebrities are able to capture big box office simply by putting their face up there on the screen.

MillerCoors LLC must pull 39 brands of beer from Minnesota bars, restaurants and stores because it failed to renew brand-label registrations before the state government shut down July 1, the Public Safety Department said.
The MillerCoors registration expired June 13, and although the company tried to renew it, the registration could not be processed in time before the shutdown, he said. The company filed its paperwork and two checks to cover the fee, Green said

so true,
I remember there was a poll somewhere in the middle east,
I think it was in Iraq during the invasion.
The majority was against the US of course but when asked if they planned to apply for visas a large percentage said YES!

“We knew shutting down the government in 1995 was not going to work for us. It helped Bill Clinton get reelected. I refuse to help Barack Obama get reelected by marching Republicans into a position where we have co-ownership of a bad economy,” McConnell said. “It didn’t work in 1995. What will happen is the administration will send out notices to 80 million Social Security recipients and to military families and they will all start attacking members of Congress. That is not a useful place to take us. And the president will have the bully pulpit to blame Republicans for all this disruption.”

i heard something really interesting on NPR recently about how before air travel was so easy, members of congress would move their families to DC and live there year round as opposed to now where everyone flies home for the weekend. they were saying that before when everyone was around each other more they got to know each other better, there was more trust and understanding, people’s kids went to school together, etc….and so there was more reason to compromise in congress because people saw each other as human beings not that different from themselves even if they have ideological differences.

Re: Waters, she represents Watts and other poor, black communities. She would not be doing her job if she didn’t ask specifically about programs her constituents would be eligible for, want, and need. That’s why they elected her. As for doing it at the hearing,
1) do you think she’d get an apt with Bernanke otherwise?
2) what better way to show said constituents that she’s looking out for them, but national television.

Self serving, perhaps, but no worse than anyone else when given the opportunity.

I’ve been attempting to distill my commentary down to essential points, the better to convey the facts.
With regards to the economy, what is happening is a clash of two ideologies.
One rooted in the free market system which has served this nation well for over 200 years.
The other rooted in redistributive “feel good ” ideologies which have been proven wrong through ample experience in other nations.

This President, with no experience in the private sector whatsoever, believes in his ideology. The problem is that he will not stand by it wholeheartedly, knowing full well that it is anathema to the majority of Americans.

Instead, we get class warfare, as predictable as the tides in both its inability to learn from the past and its degradation of the society as a whole.

I think you oversimplify and you certainly don’t understand the President. He is nothing if not pragmatic. His thing has always been to make government work, not get bogged down in partisan fighting. The fact that he hasn’t been able to accomplish that says more about the evils of partisanship than his experience in the private sector. And don’t say it is an anathema to the majority of Americans. A majority of Americans voted him into office, in part because we wanted a government that could set aside partisanship. This is the majority that you and other Republicans have chosen to ignore since the election.

see this is what i mean. dave and I could not be more different ideologically (and in mental capacity if you asked dave) but since we live together on the OT we are able to sometimes find common ground.

doesnt matter wtf is elected poor people are still always gonna TAKE TAKE TAKE. they always have, and always will. same with the rich. nothing will change that except a full on revolution where people in the middle wash the streets with the blood of the poor and the rich. (but lets not kill the ultra mega rich, they kinda rock)

I can’t even begin to answer you because you are so wrong in so many ways. You don’t want to vote- fine rob. Then don’t bi tch that you don’t like the way the country is run. Just remember everytime you post some ridiculous opinion on the OT, it’s our system of government that protects your right to post. It’s call democracy and by not voting you are simply sponging off the rest of us who care enough to vote and try to change things for everyone.

Better yet- go to some repressive country like Saudi Arabia and then come back and tell me how stupid the right to vote is.

democracy at it’s CORE is about us having the RIGHT to not vote if we want. democracy also means we are allowed to say whatever the hell we want in this country, tho that is slowly diminishing as the years go on…

Wrong rob- democracy is all about the fight to give us the right to vote. People came here because they wanted to be free and have a say in their government- something they weren’t allowed in Europe. Pick up a history book, wouldya?

People in general, here in the US don’t realize the uniqueness of a transfer of power without struggle. Armed, ugly struggle that is.
We’ve grown accustomed to believing that the American system is the norm throughout the world and that conflicting ideologies can just work it out with reasoned debate.
Sure both parties are to blame to a certain extent. To a larger extent, we have politicians who will not stand by their core beliefs, at least to the point where they actually state them.
Doesn’t help that our media, which is empowered by the constitution to balance these conflicts out, is sleeping on the job.
Any journalists reading this should look at their role allowing this ongoing downward spiral to continue.
If they would only ask the hard and vital questions as they are supposed to, then maybe we could get some more accountality from our elected officials.
Here’s a start:
“Mr. President, you stated that this would happen if you did that, where was the miscalculation in your administration, and how are they being held accountable?”

Those were local elections dave. The President was still elected by a majority in the national election. And the tide may be changing back- not only has Obama’s fundraising far outstripped any of the Republicans, but some of the local elections are now turning back to Democrats.

We were talking about the press asking questions, were we not? At least Bush was nominally treated with the respect of his office by Congress. No one called him a liar on national television during a state of the union address. No- that took a Republican.

Ridiculous. His healthcare package was watered down to the point that it hasn’t even taken place yet. If he was the dogmatic ideologue that you accuse him of being, he wouldn’t have compromised on that, or any thing else. My biggest complain about the man is that he’s bent over backwards to be bi-partisan, and it has done nothing but earn him the contempt and scorn of the people he’s reached out to. And to add insult to injury, no matter how often he reaches out, they accuse him of not doing so.

Those people, btw, have been nothing but rude, obnoxious, and disrespectful to him personally, and more importantly, to the office of the presidency. People on the left may have disliked, disagreed with, or even hated Bush, but they rarely disrespected the office. They publicly stood behind the office, even when they were not in agreement with the policy. Today’s “leaders” have no such respect, and to a man and woman, do not deserve to be sitting where they are sitting.

dh,
your statement about tax rates being the lowest in 60 years as a percentage of GDP misses two major points here:
-no one says the Republicans are for doing away with taxes,
they are proposing not increasing them in this economically perilous time.
-Our spending as a percentage of the yearly budget is the main problem right now. It’s about 120% in fact.
That’s why we are faced with trillion dollar deficits.

Stop the spending first,
the ship is sinking.
Then get back to the pork when the ship is righted.

if you look at the graph i provided yesterday showing gov’t spending as % of gdp throught us history – spending has always drastically increased around times of economic instability in the united states.

Palin- first of all, you’re joking. second of all, the President is not the emperor. Partisan gridlock is not his fault nor is it in the power of any one individual to break it. It means changing our system of politics and I doubt McCain would have fared better. Palin? What a joke.

my point is I don’t give an F whose fault, what party the person is from etc. I just want results. if the current set of folks aint doing it and doesn’t seem to give confidence to do it, I’m open to idea to let some new faces get into the mix. If Obama says this F’ing partisan gridlock can’t be hurdled, then why not let the crazy bitchhh a shot. and if Obama can hurdle it, then just go freaking do it already. Don’t worry about the freaking election in 2012. Just handle your business right here, right now.

Ridiculous M4L- give Palin a shot and this country won’t survive another 4 years. Partisan gridlock won;t end until both sides decide they care more about the country than about their party. Palin has neither the chops nor the cojones to accomplish that. Crazy is just crazy.

if gridlock so so freaking unbreakable, she won’t be able to do any damage as nothing gets done like today. it’s not even palin per se but that if current situation aint working out, I’m open to fresh faces – even Palin.

that aint the point. the point is if current folks can’t bring forth the results then we should be open to new faces and if somehow the country picks Palin, I’m open for it. Again, I’m just looking for results. explanations might be good for history books but it aint the results I’m looking for

“if you look at the graph i provided yesterday showing gov’t spending as % of gdp throught us history – spending has always drastically increased around times of economic instability in the united states.”

no, YOU stfu. when one CHOOSES not to vote it just as important as someone who DOES vote. you do realize MOST people vote for whoever they think is cuter / sexier / who they identify with more / and what that person will get for them once elected / and will they protect the status quo of their lifestyle. i dont partake in that baloney, so i dont vote. and besides they are ALL fugly and none of them stand for anything i believe in. why would i cast a vote? that’s called being phoney, not being an american.

You really don’t understand the meaning of democracy. It’s a shame. And no- choosing not to vote is NOT as important as choosing to vote. It’s just a lot dumber. Your vote is your voice. So since you choose not to use it, STFU already.

Rob- nice one. Just because you haven’t the brains or the wit to come up with a good counter reply, you call names. Doesn’t do much for your cred- no one is going to read your post and think, gee, robb is such an intellect. In fact, you come off like a miserable human being with serious educational lacks.

sometimes I wish Obama would take a page from our Rob here via:
I can’t be bothered with worrying about re-election in 2012. Love me or hate me, I’m just going to do it as I see fit while I’m in office and then let history rate me in hindsight.

I did refute your claim yesterday, and your own statement is confusing. As I said yesterday, tax rates have not changed since the early part of the GW Bush administration, yet total tax receipts as a percentage of GDP is lower now because of the economy. In other words, tax rates and tax receipts as a percentage of GDP are not necessarily correlated.

As for spending as a percentage of GDP: we are at the second-highest point in history. The highest point was WWII, for obvious reasons. It has nothing to do with recessions.

m4l,
totally agree with your statement about here and now.
As I keep stating,
everyone, including the administration is talking disaster ahead.
Why don’t they all do the right thing then and get the job done now.

“you lie”
that’s what the left is all up in arms about?
As if Bush wasn’t called names by Reid and Pelosi.
Do we really want to go there,
comparing who was disrespected?
That’s exactly the point about getting the job done, NOW.

Yes, I want to go there, because Reid and Pelosi NEVER disrespected the office the way this new crop of “angry conservatives” have. And these are the people who want to get into people’s bedrooms to legislate what they are doing, and think they are all so ballsy and tough and speaking for the people that they don’t have to act like civil members of society. They are so rapid in their ideology that they’ve forgotten their civics lessons, as well as the manners their parents were supposed to have taught them.

It IS important, because it’s just another indication of how polarizing politics has become. I’m not a special fan of the early 60′s, and am not yearning for the days of “Mad Men”, but I gotta say one thing about that time. The ideological differences were probably just the same, but people knew how to function in a room together, and men from different parties could speak civilly to each other, and even socialize. That would be impossible today.

I don’t care if he votes or not. Chances are his vote would be for Snoopy or L’il Kim anyway, so the fact that he stays home is a blessing.

I don’t like his name calling, I don’t like his telling people who question his positions to STFU. He can’t play well with others unless he’s the center of attention, and he’s an angry, bitter human being.

Yeah, it hasn’t worked – and until I hear some sort of plan from the right that doesn’t sound like it came from a Dickens novel then I will continue to be unconvinced anyone over there is worthy of sitting in the drivers’ seat of this country.

I’ll meet you half-way. Spending as a percentage of GDP does go up during a recession, and that helps stabilize things. That is fine. However, there is another issue at play: the old-age entitlements (SS, Medicare and Medicaid) are out of-control, and eating up a larger-and-larger percentage of the federal budget.

Has anyone watched the congressional hearing on Social Security the past few days? A senior fellow from the Urban Institute (not exactly a right-wing think tank) hit the bullseye in summing up the issue with these programs. Social Security was designed to be an OLD-AGE insurance, as was Medicare. In 1933, the average lifespan was 67 years, and SS was intended to prop up people in their last two years, when their resources and wits are dwindling. Fast forward to 2011, and what social secutiry and medicare have become are a MIDDLE-AGE RETIREMENT PROGRAM. If anyone doesn’t believe this, I suggest that they go visit any “Leisure Village” complex. Not only have SS and Medicare become retirement programs, they have morphed into this state at a time when people have fewer kids to pay for it. Not sustainable. The Democrats are demagouguing this issue, and they know it. How many times are they going to claim that ANY attempt to reform these programs is akin to throwing grandma under the bus?

oh dear me. What a gigantic food fight. I see that things have gone steadily downward since I challenged randi to a dual and offered to take *rob* to the gym. Let’s have a party at a restaurant at a place that let’s us have a food fight. We can have it out. We can start with rolls and graduate to soft foods and dessert.

I did my work for the day. Chicago is sunny, breezy and in the high 70s. It is one of the most beautiful days ever.

dh,
getting back to your statements about Taxation/GDP ratio,
you are also leaving out an important philosophical point.
Isn’t it the idea of this nation, even from its inception, to limit the role of government in our lives?
Shouldn’t we be applauding the move away from taxation assuming your graph is correct.
Shouldn’t our government be doing its job without asking more and more from its citizens. Taxation is a form of oppression, by its very nature, it seeks to hold human beings accountable for their commerce and interactions.
This is, of course, necessary to a certain extent.
But I’ll re-state what I said yesterday, why can’t the government get by on a paltry 3-4 trillion a year?
Better yet, reduce reckless spending.